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Old Thu Sep 18, 2008, 01:38pm
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally Posted by Scrapper1 View Post

Anyone who claims that a ball in flight that was last touched in the backcourt can be in the frontcourt is giving an interpretation (a very poor one), and frankly, ignoring the rule.
And anybody that maybe wants to have a throw-in 70 away from where the ball was when a double foul occurred and call that throw-in spot "the spot nearest to where the ball was located" is frankly not thinking about the intent and purpose of that rule imco.

Imo the rulesmakers want to put the POI at the closest spot to where the ball IS when the interruption occurs....not at the spot of what caused that interruption....and not where the ball WAS before the interruption occurred.

What you think is the mindless raving of a senile mind might actually be what the rulesmakers intended.

Seriously!

I never joke.
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